the scattering of this massive hub of gamedevs, even if it's individually beneficial for most engines that receive those devs, seems bad for the industry as a whole. if there was a more user-friendly way to modularly build an engine out of third-party parts it wouldn't be so bad

incidentally, the situation is not that unlike the long decline of Twitter under Elon; there are a number of replacements, but none of them are perfectly ideal, and the exodus results in a scattering of communities and (most likely permanent) lost engagement. the situation really fucking sucks!